# Making DVR enable just for specific streams in same live application

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/making-dvr-enable-just-for-specific-streams-in-same-live-application/47010>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [October 12, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/making-dvr-enable-just-for-specific-streams-in-same-live-application/47010 "2016-10-12T23:58:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bilal\_Gult](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Bilal\_Gult](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bilal_Gult)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/making-dvr-enable-just-for-specific-streams-in-same-live-application/47010/1 "2016-10-12T23:58:49Z")

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Hi,

I want to make DVR enable just for streams which I want, not the whole streams of application. I have app1\_live live application, and on it there are four streams which are: myStream1, myStream2, myStream3, myPlayout (which is scheduled stream and use wse-plugin-streampublisher plugin). I want to make DVR enable just for myStream1, myStream2 not for myStream3 and especially importantly myPlayout. How can I do this, is this possible?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Gustavo\_Villegas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@Gustavo\_Villegas](https://community.wowza.com/u/Gustavo_Villegas)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/making-dvr-enable-just-for-specific-streams-in-same-live-application/47010/2 "2016-10-13T12:37:27Z")

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I think you have 2 options

a) use this module to control what to record and what not ([https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-control-which-streams-get-recorded-by-the-ndvr-recorder-moduledvrrecordercontrol](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-control-which-streams-get-recorded-by-the-ndvr-recorder-moduledvrrecordercontrol)

b)You can disable the automatic recording of nDVR when stream is published, and activate the nDVR API

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**Author:** ![Bilal\_Gult](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Bilal\_Gult](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bilal_Gult)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/making-dvr-enable-just-for-specific-streams-in-same-live-application/47010/3 "2016-10-14T01:24:52Z")

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Thanks for answer tavius.

a) I tried plugin but couldn’t make it work. Are you sure it is not just for Wowza Transcoder outputs? Because when I tried to configure it as recording just \_live suffixes, it didn’t worked and record all streams and also playout.

b) I don’t know exactly when customers will stream. Also I guess, it still records all stream including playout when nDVR activated. That’s why it doesn’t work for me. But thanks anyway.